Once upon a time the Founding Fathers were considered
to be the personification of the American Republic. Most notable among giants, was Thomas Jefferson. The significance of his
authorship of the Declaration of Independence is heralded as the very essence of the purpose for fighting the revolution.
Jump onward to the present era and examine the sentiment held by the populace. The seeming disconnect from the political thought
of the 18th and 19th century to the attitudes in this 21st totalitarian collectivist mindset
that dominates the culture, often resembles life on a different planet.

According to Monticell.org, the quintessential statement closely associated with Jefferson, “That government is best which governs least”
is clarified.

“Although
the ideas expressed in this quotation may be in line with Jefferson's opinions to some extent, the exact phrasing is almost
certainly not Jefferson's. However, this quotation has been associated with the ideological descendants of Jefferson's
Democratic-Republican party for a very long time, and this is likely why it ultimately came to be attributed to him.
Merrill Peterson even referred to the quotation as a "Jeffersonian maxim" in The Jefferson Image in the American Mind”.

It can be fairly accepted that
this world view was commonly acknowledged as the norm for most Americans. During the formative years of nation building, the
proper role of government was narrow in scope. At a minimum, the civic culture professed a need and desire to keep government
intervention limited on all levels.

“What
guidelines could preserve Jefferson's ethos while also recognizing that the world has changed in dramatic ways? A good place
for conservatives to start might be Friedrich Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty, in which he sanctioned two spheres of domestic activity as legitimately belonging to government: offering a minimal social
safety net and providing limited correction for failures of the market. Neither of these two roles, Hayek believed, was inherently
incompatible with economic freedom or the rule of law.”

In the same vein, Peter Coulson from Australia writes in the article, the best Government is that which governs least.

“This is the central premise of libertarian political theory and is designed for two
main aims. Firstly it protects the rights and liberties from a government pursuing a course of action that requires coercion
of the public to achieve its desired outcomes.

The second reason for this theory is the belief that government should "focus on its
knitting": providing a stable economic management framework, with robust and predictable rules within which the market
can effectively operate to create wealth for its participants.”

The premise
that official authorities operate on, the precept for the “Good of Society” has little in common with the actual
conduct of government policy. In addition, the public has abandoned the quest for individual liberty in their pursuit for
the good life at the expense of their neighbor.

Political Crumbs starts out with the statement: We’ve moved a long way since Locke’s minimal vision of government,
then goes on to express the fantasy myth of achieving a “Good Society”.

“Indeed, we widely regard it as an urgent moral
task of the government to guarantee a minimum quality of life for all of its citizens. Where to draw that “minimal”
line is a matter of debate, but few would argue about clean drinking water, free firefighters, free hospitals, free sewage
treatment plants, free schooling for children…all this is something the government of a rich state ought to, at the
very least, guarantee its citizens.”

The
absurdity that it is government’s role, or even its duty to provide FREE services, exemplifies the mental illness that
underpins the general decay in societal attitudes and the lack of rational thought. Government is hardly free. The notion
that social programs are a moral imperative, when government never produces any wealth or monetary value, by the very nature
of its composition stands on the self-evident premise, that the state derives its cash flow from coercive confiscation under
the penalty of punitive laws and regulations.

Even
the notion that “so called” responsible citizens would not debate, much less rebuke the collectivist civic benefit
of government fluoride poisoned water, mandated taxable fire fighting fees and government school socialization indoctrination,
or the death panels that provide their euthanasia care are all symptoms of deranged Utopian insanity. The real sewer treatment
plant is the governmental apparatus that seeks to dominate every facet of individual life.

Absent in the state worship culture is any admission that the state has failed
miserably under the tyranny of governmental imposition for well over the last century and a half. Material consumerism and
socialist programs are no substitute for personal dignity and individual responsibility.

Quality of life is directly proportional with the degree of the absence of government
intrusion in the lives of citizens. By this standard, we all live under the dictatorship of a system designed to dehumanize,
impose dependency and demand ultimate deference to a despotic and authoritarian system.

“Town
meetings have suffered a loss in attendance over the years. Most of this decline can be attributed to increases in town size,
which explains about 60% of the variance in attendance from town to town. But a decline in the number and variety of issues
over which towns have control has deprived townspeople of the opportunity to make decisions that matter in their lives. That
has hurt attendance dramatically.”

While
rule by direct democracy certainly conflicts with our Republic representational form of Federalism, the tradition
of local citizen’s involvement in local government is a mainstay for a free people. Yes, the size of the community directly
marginalizes the effectiveness of a single person; however, the message of a lone voice often is more powerful than the goon
squads of a police state. Of course, a moral citizenry is the indispensable ingredient necessary to stand up to tyranny.

As previously cited in the essay, The TUN - a true representative council provides the proper alternative to the current version of electoral office selections in the land of the timid. Read the
details of this method of representation and accept the conclusion that “By applying the prudent principles of the TUN
method, a real representative republic is possible. Consider a model that retains the current levels of government separations
that exist today.”

Now for any form
of government to justly administer and honor individual natural rights must be based upon the willful consent of responsible
citizens. In today’s environment, the requirement that the people will discipline themselves is not exactly a widespread
practice. Even if the multitude would accept the principle, very few have the internal strength to reject or shun the “FREE”
cradle to grave government welfare society.

The
leap from innately knowing that less government produces more freedom just does not motivate the captured masses from resisting
all those social benefits from the “Free Lunch”.

“Surveys also reveal that surprisingly large
numbers of people believe that the government should take the lead and be responsible for dealing with a wide variety of social
and economic problems. 71% of Americans believe that the government has an important or essential responsibility for seeing
to it that anyone who wants a job can have one. 63% believe that the government has an important or essential responsibility
to provide citizens with adequate housing; and 78% of us think that the government has an important or essential responsibility
to provide citizens with good medical care. Similarly large majorities strongly support the notion that it is the responsibility
of the public sector to “guarantee a quality public education,” “protect the environment,” and “ensure
equal opportunity for everyone.”

Such
attitudes are typical of those non-participates to the actual functions of governmental administration. Only job seekers,
bureaucratic careerists, political aspirants or “PC” collectivists will ignore the true record of government incompetency,
deliberate corruption and misguided expenditures that bloat budgets to the point of impoverishing the once prosperous Middle
America.

The National Center for Constitutional Studies sums up the plight of the lost Republic with a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville. "Democracy in the United States
will endure until those in power learn that they can perpetuate themselves through taxation."

Dismissing the harm that irresponsible citizens have caused with their destructive
demands for more government bennies, paid for by others or just pushed onto future generations, allows for the culture of
State repression. The principles embodied in the TUN framework are a solution and remedy to the psychosis of Big Government.

“It is not true
that that government is best which is best administered — it is a sophism invented by tyranny to quiet the inquisitive
mind; a good administration is at best but a temporary palliative to a bad government, but it does not alter its nature.”
- William Penn